futurism

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• SOURCE: Seattle Times
  12/13/2020
  

  A Pacific NW Magazine Story from 1984 Predicted what Life in Seattle Would be Like Now. It was not Completely Wrong

  A 1984 speculative article was prescient about environmental and economic developments in greater Seattle. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  11/12/2020
  

  The Next Decade Could Be Even Worse

  Writer Graeme Wood profiles Peter Turchin, whose data-driven and predictive approach appeals to quantitative thinkers but is scorned by some historians. Turchin's analytics predict a period of political and social upheaval in industrialized societies. 

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• SOURCE: BBC
  9/23/2020
  

  Are We Living at the "Hinge of History"?

  Journalist Richard Fisher examines the argument that the present--this moment--is the most important juncture in human history because human capacity to affect the planet outstrips human wisdom to direct that capacity.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  5/15/2020
  

  The Conspiracy Museum: A Speculative Address

  by Robin Sloan

  Where might the spread of conspiratorial thinking and evidence-free discourse lead? Read the opening address for the Smithsonian Museum of American Conspiracy from the year 2041. 

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• 3/22/2020
  

  Our Stories Will Carry Us to the Future. Can They Save Us Now?

  by David Farrier

  To avert a climate disaster, science is essential, but we also need stories. We know ourselves first and foremost in the tales we tell.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  12/17/19
  

  Why we are obsessed with forecasting and futurism

  by Devon Powers

  The history of predicting the future.